Preface

In the era of intelligent manufacturing, digital twin technology, industrial internet technolo‐ gy, image recognition, new signal processing technology, and the extreme improvement of computing performance of control modules, the technical connotation of industrial automa‐ tion, control objects, and control objectives have also been greatly expanded. At the same time, system modeling technology and joint simulation technology provide new research methods and technical means for the design and optimization of industrial control systems. These new technological developments have promoted the development of industrial auto‐ mation technology in the direction of intellectualization.

This book is a collection of articles on novel approaches to current problems in industrial automation by academicians, researchers, and practicing engineers. The book is divided into five chapters and encompasses multidisciplinary areas within industrial automation, such as distributed system architecture, application of non-destructive distributed sensor system, joint simulation technology, and a summary of intelligent transition. *New Trends in Industrial Automation* provides useful reference material for technical workers in the field of industrial automation, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, academicians, research‐ ers, and practicing engineers.

> **Pengzhong Li** Chinesisch-Deutsches Hochschulkolleg Tongji University Shanghai, P.R. China

**Chapter 1**

Provisional chapter

**Introductory Chapter: New Trends in Industrial**

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As a comprehensive technology, industrial automation is a general term for information processing and process control of measurement, manipulation, etc., without direct manual intervention, according to expected aim in machine equipment or production process. Through the application of computer, electronic equipment, control theory, and related process technologies, industrial automation produces the management functions of optimization, detection, control, and regulation of the whole industrial production process to realize the established objectives, achieving industrial production increase, energy saving, consumption

The foundation of intelligent manufacturing is digitalization, networking, and integration. Correspondingly, industrial automation in the era of intelligence will transform centralized control into decentralized enhanced control under the original automation technology and architecture, so that the communication between sensors and the Internet can be seamlessly docked, establishing a highly flexible, personalized, and digital production mode that integrates products and services. In this mode, production automation technology can make equipment more intelligent through self-diagnosis, self-correction, and various functional software to better assist workers to complete production. Therefore, the communication and integration capabilities of automation equipment are required to be stronger, while the automation software needs to have a stronger ability of analysis and processing and data sharing

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**Automation**

Automation

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reduction, and safe production.

with other software systems of enterprises.

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